COMING NOVEMBER 02: THE TRANSDUCERS

The Transducers

Featuring: Martin Back, James Brody, Philip Mantione, Christian Pincock, and Frank Rolla

The Transducers is a group of five composers and improvisers from diverse backgrounds spanning three generations of experience. They utilize laptops, custom software, sound sculptures, circuit bending and custom electronics to produce unique sonic worlds. Within the context of unstructured improvisation, they incorporate audience collaboration by means of the Photo-Instigator, a light-sensitive device suspended above the performers that picks up light beams originating from the audience. These rays are transduced into MIDI controller data streams that are sent to the performers to use or ignore as they see fit. So in essence, audience members become collaborators, instigators and possibly saboteurs.

Excerpt of live performance (MP3)

The Transducers

DATE: Monday, November 02, 2009

TIME: 7:30 pm

COST: $5/10 suggested donation

LOCATION:
ARTS Lab Garage
131 Pine Street NE
Albuquerque, NM 87106
http://artslab.unm.edu/where.html

COMING NOVEMBER 16: MALCOLM GOLDSTEIN

Malcolm Goldstein violin solo

Malcolm Goldstein | MySpace Video


Interview with Malcolm Goldstein

COMING NOVEMBER 19: SUN CIRCLE

LAST SHOWS FOR A LONG TIME

Last shows for 2009 coming up in November. Don't know if the series will continue.

11/02: The Transducers, 11/16: Malcolm Goldstein, 11/19: Sun Circle, Osker Merrill.

NOVEMBER IS FULL OF SOUND

More details soon...

NOVEMBER:

MON. 02: PHIL MANTIONE ENSEMBLE: "The Transducers" (NM)
MON. 16: MALCOLM GOLDSTEIN (VT/MONTREAL)
THURS. 19: SUN CIRCLE (VT/MT), OSKER MERRILL (NM)

SPECTRE SERIES gets a mention in London magazine...

FACT magazine reviews SPECTRE SERIES curator William Fowler Collins' new album and mentions UNM/ARTS Lab and the series....

SATURDAY MAY 09, 9:00 PM: METAL ROUGE, MESA RITUAL

"Métal Rouge is a duo unit, originally formed in New Zealand between Andrew Scott and Helga Fassonaki, now residing in the sea between--concerned primarily with pure thoughtless formless now and its expression through sound."

http://www.myspace.com/metalrouge

Mesa Ritual is the duo of Raven Chacon and William Fowler Collins. If you caught the duo at the Robb Trust Composers' Symposium show here at ARTS Lab earlier this month then you'll recall low frequency electronics that shook the architecture, layered field recordings played at a whisper and towering, multicolored walls of sound.


When: Saturday, May 09, 9:00 PM
Where: ARTS Lab Digital Media Garage. 131 Pine Street NE, Albuquerque
Map: http://artslab.unm.edu/where.html
How much: $5-10 suggested donation goes to the artists.